You can give your kids porn. You can give your kids alcohol if consumed at home (in some states, mind you). You can give your kids tit implants, ass implants, and botox. You can give your kids tattoos. Why in the hell cant you hire a stripper for your kids?

Yeah, you're right. I believe they are both public restaurants. oh, WAIT! They wear shorts!!! and sometimes the waitresses have LARGE BREASTS!!!My god! What was I thinking? Might as well take them to a crack house!

I humbly nominate myself to be the keeper of morality for the entire country. Harming others*? Immoral. I don't mean shocking their sensibilities or hurting their feelings, either. Ta-da! Done!

Of course what I view as just peachy is highly immoral to some of the more uptight Teatards, various faith groups, the PTA and assorted busy-bodies. Some of what they do and consider moral is highly immoral to me, though. I think the standard thing to do (if you're a DA) besides being a total dick is go by "community standards". I think this is basically what the rest of us would call a "trial by press" or "trial by public opinion".

In so many cases the 'endangering the welfare of children' claim seems nonsensical compared to the routine endangerment of a kids well-being incurred by just making it through a day in a society gone ape shiat.

As cman pointed out, you can give your 16-year-old kid a boob job, a penis enlargement, botox, or other intense, intimate, potentially damaging cosmetic surgery "gifts" and law enforcement doesn't get involved unless there was some damage or negligence, and even then they go after the doctor, not the mother.

A 16-year-old in many states is past the age of consent. They can legally say "yes, I want to have sex with you" and do it when involved with a member of the opposite sex, no matter how old the other person is.

A 16-year-old can be allowed to watch an R-rated movie when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian over the age of 17. This means they can watch people strip down to full nudity (prolonged full frontal for woman, short-term full frontal for men), have sex (as long as we don't actually see any genitals, i.e. we can see bare buts moving and topless participants), use every curse word in the book, murder, maim, slaughter, torture, and dismember other humans and animals.

A 16-year-old nake can expect to start getting phone calls and visits (if he hasn't already) from the local military recruiter, who does his best (LIES OUT HIS ASS) to get the kid to commit to joining the military as soon as he's able, where he will probably experience some VERY adult shiat that adults shouldn't have to experience.

A 16-year-old can drive a car-- A multi-ton hunk of metal and plastic that is capable of traveling at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. And they are allowed to do this while also being allowed to own a cell phone capable of sending and receiving text messages and surfing the Internet without restrictions.

Yet a 16-year-old can't have a woman strip down to a bikini (because that's what bra & panties are: A bikini, commonly seen on the beach and The Price Is Right) and wiggle in front of him, or grind against him. Because that's "too adult".

No sex occurred. No nudity was mentioned. Nobody under 16 got a handjob or blowjob. They were probably not allowed to touch the dancers, either ("You can't touch me, but I can touch you." being the general rule of the business).

So what, exactly, was the "endangerment" here? Ooh, a dancer did some sexy moves, with clothing covering her breasts and genitals, on top of a fully-clothed 16-year-old? But there was no mouth to genital contact, so really, this was no different than the physical contact the kid would get if he joined the wrestling team in school. Right?

LEAVE THE KID AND MOM ALONE, JOHNNY LAW! There was no crime here. Go stop someone who is REALLY endangering their kids by beating them, and leave this great (but inappropriate) mom alone.

It's MORE damaging the the kid to arrest his mom than it was for him to get a lap dance from a girl in a bikini! You assholes!

I'm having trouble getting too outraged at this, but it does look a bit tacky. I was at a party just after high school where a mother was holding the beer bong for her 13 or 14-year-old son. That made me uncomfortable. This isn't bringing up similar feelings.

As cman pointed out, you can give your 16-year-old kid a boob job, a penis enlargement, botox, or other intense, intimate, potentially damaging cosmetic surgery "gifts" and law enforcement doesn't get involved unless there was some damage or negligence, and even then they go after the doctor, not the mother.

A 16-year-old in many states is past the age of consent. They can legally say "yes, I want to have sex with you" and do it when involved with a member of the opposite sex, no matter how old the other person is.

A 16-year-old can be allowed to watch an R-rated movie when accompanied by a parent or legal guardian over the age of 17. This means they can watch people strip down to full nudity (prolonged full frontal for woman, short-term full frontal for men), have sex (as long as we don't actually see any genitals, i.e. we can see bare buts moving and topless participants), use every curse word in the book, murder, maim, slaughter, torture, and dismember other humans and animals.

A 16-year-old nake can expect to start getting phone calls and visits (if he hasn't already) from the local military recruiter, who does his best (LIES OUT HIS ASS) to get the kid to commit to joining the military as soon as he's able, where he will probably experience some VERY adult shiat that adults shouldn't have to experience.

A 16-year-old can drive a car-- A multi-ton hunk of metal and plastic that is capable of traveling at speeds up to 100 miles per hour. And they are allowed to do this while also being allowed to own a cell phone capable of sending and receiving text messages and surfing the Internet without restrictions.

Yet a 16-year-old can't have a woman strip down to a bikini (because that's what bra & panties are: A bikini, commonly seen on the beach and The Price Is Right) and wiggle in front of him, or grind against him. Because that's "too adult".

No sex occurred. No nudity was mentioned. Nobody under 16 got a handjob or blowjob. They were p ...

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I'm guessing the charges are related to the 14 year old's at the party. Not the 16 year old's.

Even so, you can take a 14-year-old kid to an R-rated movie to see far worse, and there's nothing illegal about it.

Sin_City_Superhero:ZeroCorpse: a car-- A multi-ton hunk of metal and plastic that is capable of traveling at speeds up to 100 miles per hour

What kind of crappy shiat-box do you drive? My car will do 100 in third gear, and still have fourth and fifth gears to go.

We're not talking about your car. We're talking about the average 16-year-old's first car. I'm sure your car is the bastion of your manhood and all that, but most teenagers get a piece of shiat to start out.

My comfortable late-model van is capable of higher speeds, but I generally don't drive over 75 anyway, because I like not having to pay speeding tickets. I'm old enough and endowed enough that I don't need my automobile to stand in for my dick, which coincidentally does do100 in third gear, with fourth and fifth gears to go.

My comfortable late-model van is capable of higher speeds, but I generally don't drive over 75 anyway, because I like not having to pay speeding tickets. I'm old enough and endowed enough that I don't need my automobile to stand in for my dick, which coincidentally does do100 in third gear, with fourth and fifth gears to go.

My comfortable late-model van is capable of higher speeds, but I generally don't drive over 75 anyway, because I like not having to pay speeding tickets. I'm old enough and endowed enough that I don't need my automobile to stand in for my dick, which coincidentally does do100 in third gear, with fourth and fifth gears to go.